HeyJaredNick Hodges
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AI cuts software developers some slack (opens the original)
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My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than the previous house as our family grew, and each house became just as full of junk as the one before it. My mom was echoing C. Northcote Parkinson, whose famous law said the same about work—that it expands to fill the time given to get it done. In other words, if you say a task will take a week or two weeks, you’ll be right either way. We all kno
Suddenly I’m a Go developer (opens the original)
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My first programming language was BASIC. My seventh-grade math teacher, Mr. Schulte, taught BASIC to us on Fridays. He gave us programming assignments for homework during the week. Some of us loved it so much we stayed after school to play games and create extra programs, including our own crude, text-based adventure games. I remember hearing a story about a crazy new language called Pascal that didn’t have line numbers. How in the world would that work? Years later I became a Pascal programmer
Claude Code has left a little hole in my soul (opens the original)
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I built a complete, working application in a day this past weekend. Well, less than a day if you don’t count the time I spent waiting on Claude Code to do the work. The idea was germinated by my sister having a difficult time tracking a personal growth project that she had undertaken. It worked out for her, but me being me, I thought “I can build an app for that!” The time between my sister telling me about her personal project and me having a working, usable app running on Cloudflare Workers wa
AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud (opens the original)
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Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with them. It seems like there isn’t very much you can do about them. But now that we have AI coding agents, maybe there is. Look, we all start out with great intentions. We have a beautiful design, we implement it carefully and lovingly, and we swear that this time we aren’t going to make compromises and we will always “do the right thing” even if it
Coding agents make mistakes. So what? (opens the original)
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Regular readers will probably have figured out that I’m generally an optimist. I think things are always getting better, and the future of the human race looks pretty good. Technology has taken us from grinding poverty to a pretty good life here on Planet Earth. I also believe that life has gotten immensely better for software developers just in the last year. We’ve seen AI agents suddenly and stunningly write real, working code from prompts alone. We tell the AI what we want, and it does it. I
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